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Square Theme2013-11-01 11:51:00
Get funky with Square, our November 2013 theme release. This fresh theme will shake up your company or business website with a powerful, clean design and vibrant colors. It comes with a variety of styles and backgrounds, making it a beautiful base for all kinds of web creations.
Square comes with tons of nifty little features. Check out the background scroll effect, which gradually changes your site's background color when scrolling down. Also a number of slick scale, fade and slide animations hit in when you scroll the page, adding a dynamic feel to it.
Use panels to create a nice pricing table and present product features with beautiful UIkit icons. As a little goodie all images, like those in the slideshow, can be downloaded and used with the theme.
Built on Warp7 and UIkit Square provides full support for LESS. You can easily create your own style with just a few clicks in the Customizer and change colors, spacing and fonts without having to write a single line of code. To g...

Joomla World Conference2013-10-28 16:01:00
The Joomla World Conference 2013 will be held in Boston from 8th to 10th November. Like the beneficiaries of one of the world's finest educational institution, we will amble along the paths of the Harvard University Campus. Because that's where it's taking place. How cool is that! And we are also giving away free memberships!
Win a membership and catch the team in Boston
We toss out 10 Joomla Developer memberships for free. All you have to do, is send us a picture taken during your journey to Boston that shows your anticipation for YOOtheme. Be creative! Here are some examples: Take your coffee mug and scribble "I love YOO" on it or put on your YOO shirt and take an enthusiastic photo at the airport or paint a picture and so on. We put no limit to your creativity!
Email us the pic of your trip with YOO to info@yootheme.com and we will pick the lucky winners as soon as we get back from our trip to Boston.
We are excited to see you all soon. It is another amazing opportunity ...

Capture Theme2013-10-01 11:39:00
Check out Capture, our October 2013 theme release! It comes with a clean widescreen design, which is topped by a bright two color scheme. Its versatileness makes it perfect for any kind of web site creation, from business websites to photo blogs.
This theme comes with a whole bunch of features. Capture the attention of your visitors with big parallax backgrounds, slants, which you can add to different module positions and an opening sequence animation that will give your website a unique look and feel. On top that you get a modern Widgetkit Bonus Style for the Slideset.
Built on Warp7 and UIkit Capture provides full support for LESS. You can easily create your very own style with just a few clicks in the Customizer and change colors, spacing and fonts without having to write a single line of code. To get you started, Capture already provides 8 different style variations to choose from.
Full UIkit integration
8 pre-built style variations available
Parallax background effect and S...

Joomladay Germany2013-09-26 15:40:00
Last Friday we attended the Joomladay Germany in Nuremberg. Even though we could only be there for the business day, we had great fun, got to meet old friends, saw a number of interesting talks and had giant cookies. Congrats to the organizers who did a great job on the event. We even had the chance to present two sessions of our own. Our developer Artur also took the opportunity to give a lightning session during the tech talks. For those who missed our presentations, you can watch them here through the Jandbeyond Youtube channel. Both sessions were held in German.
UIkit
During the first presentation web-designer Franziska looked under the hood of our new front-end framework UIkit. She explained, how your project benefits from using front-end frameworks and why we decided to make our own. She also gave some in-depth insight into the components and built a website in 5 minutes using UIkit.
Warp 7
For our second talk, senior web-designer Danny took the audience behind the sce...

Moreno Theme2013-09-01 14:30:00
Say howdy to Moreno, our September 2013 theme release! Thinking of a grid-style theme with flat color combinations, we decided to create a special design that will perfectly fit your business or photography site. It comes with dark and light style variations making it suitable to a broad range of websites.
Moreno comes with an exclusive feature - a special module position called Mosaic, which features a nice animated grid layout with unique module sizes which are responding to different screen resolutions. Additionally we've added a fancy image overlay to highlight your images. Further you can select a special article boxed style which will make your sites articles look like the panels.
Moreno is based on Warp 7 and provides full support for LESS. The front-end is completely built with UIkit and can be modified through the Customizer. You can change colors, spacing and fonts without having to write a single line of code. To get you started, Moreno already provides 8 different sty...

UIkit 1.1 released2013-08-21 09:53:00
After many hours of bugfixing, experiments and discussions we're thrilled to announce the release of UIkit 1.1 - The next milestone in the young life of our beloved frontend framework. The new release comes - besides many minor improvements and bugfixes - with two complete new components: Animation and ScrollSpy.
But before getting more into detail let's crunch some numbers. Uikit was forked over 100 times and found over 730 stargazers on Github since its initial release. We're also proud to announce that UIkit has been downloaded over 18335 times. This is awesome, thank you! Now let's get back to the two new great addtions you'll find in UIkit.
Animation
Animations are cross-browser keyframe based CSS animations wrapped in classes ready to add dynamic effects to any element on your site. To see the animations in action just head over to our animation documentation.
Scrollspy
Scrollspy is a simple but powerful component for firing events and adding classes to elements wh...

How big is UIkit?2013-08-13 13:01:00
Creating charts is fun! We wanted to know, how UIkit's file size compares to the leading front-end frameworks, namely Twitter's Bootstrap and Zurb's Foundation. Therefore, we created some charts of how the minified CSS and JavaScript files compare to each other.
Please keep in mind that the file size depends on the supported features of each framework. More features result in a bigger size. Nevertheless, it is good to know how big the framework is, you are using. We checked the file sizes of the current frameworks. But since they are in constant development, the sizes may have changed. Having that said, let's take a look at the charts...
Minified CSS
Some frameworks come with icons and some not. So we separated the icons from the core size in our first chart to give you a better overview.
In the second chart we added the default icons the frameworks use.
Minified JavaScript
The third chart compares the minified JavaScript.
CSS and Javascript
The last chart shows...

ZOO meets UIkit2013-08-08 17:28:00
Today the ZOO learns to integrate with UIkit. With UIkit we have just released our own lightweight and modular front-end framework. It powers all of our new Warp 7 themes starting with Nano3.
With the new ZOO 3.1 release the ZOOs apps now feature each a new UIkit template. This will make ZOO look awesome in our Warp 7 themes. The ZOO app will automatically adapt the style of the Warp 7 theme. All without writing a single line of code. Read this article in our documentation section on how to use the ZOO with one of our UIkit based themes.
As always, grab your own copy of ZOO 3.1 and take it for a spin.

Joomla!Day Germany 20132013-08-08 15:11:00
This year's Joomla!Day takes place on 13th and 14th of September in Nürnberg! It's a two day event: The Business Day on Friday and the Community Day on Saturday. Both days come with a great speaker lineup.
YOOtheme is again Silver sponsor and the whole team will be attending the Business Day. Even better, we will give two talks that day, one about the Warp theme framework and one about our new UIkit front-end framework. It will be a great introduction on how to build Joomla themes with both frameworks.
We are giving away two tickets for both days. Just retweet our tweet to get a chance to win. Or head over to the Joomla!Day website and book your tickets there.
Hope to see you in Nürnberg!

We are growing2013-08-05 14:11:00
This post is about the `Status Quo` of YOOtheme, our future plans and the new product pricing. In the last 6 months we spent a lot of time developing and re-inventing the foundation of our themes. Namely, our new Warp 7 framework which is behind all our current theme releases and UIkit, our new front-end framework.
Theme releases
During the development of our latest themes we realized a rising complexity. Five years ago all we had to do was to make the theme look great in every browser. Nowadays, themes are much more feature-rich. They are responsive and we have to deal with all kinds of viewports and devices. Our latest Warp 7 release brings two new elements into the development: LESS and our new customizer. Making the customizer work great takes a lot of tweaking of all the different variables. Also, the demo content and style variations have become a lot more sophisticated and require a lot of work. In conclusion, we can say that each theme takes 2 months of design and developm...

Lava Theme2013-08-01 15:42:00
Check out Lava, our August 2013 theme release! Inspired by the modern flat style, we cooked up a fresh, clean and spacious design that will serve perfectly to present your company or portfolio site. It is bright, colorful and extremely versatile, making it an excellent blueprint for all kinds of web creations.
This theme is packed with great features. The fluid wrapper is extra-wide and displays beautifully on large screens. A smooth off-canvas navigation lets visitors browse comfortably through your site on their mobile devices. A neat sticky navbar attaches itself to the top of the page when scrolling, so that you can easily reach it from everywhere on the site. Smooth animated buttons, a sliding search and a nice image overlay give an overall modern and interactive feel to the theme. Optionally, modules can spread over the full width of the wrapper, which is great to display images or slideshows "framelessly".
Lava is based on Warp 7 and provides full support for LESS. The fro...

Warp's Responsive Scripts2012-06-18 12:53:00
As we started working on bringing the responsive design to our Warp 6 theme framework we quickly realized that it is not only the CSS which does all the work. We also needed JavaScripts which would add even more functionality in addition to the CSS media queries. Fortunately the JavaScript engines of modern browsers offer a function called window.matchMedia which can evaluate media queries so you are able to handle the result. And for all browsers which support media queries in CSS but lack of the window.matchMedia function we added a tiny polyfill to add this functionality.
We also wrapped the window.matchMedia function in our own jQuery function $.onMediaQuery which makes it easier to attach multiple callback functions to a media query. Here is an example on how to use this function:
/* Attach custom callbacks to a media query */
$.onMediaQuery('(min-width: 400px)', {
valid: function() {
/* the view port is at least 400 pixels wide */
},
invalid: function() {
/* the v...

Warp Gets Responsive2012-06-12 15:37:00
It has been a little over a year since we released the Warp 6 theme framework. It was a major success for us and we have improved it constantly. That's why we are really excited to announce the next major framework release Warp 6.2 which comes with a completely responsive design which adapts perfectly for all device resolutions. We will do two blog posts where we'll take a closer look at how we implemented the responsive design in Warp. This part will focus on the responsive layout and its CSS. But first of all the good news: It was really easy to make the Warp framework responsive. Thanks to our current CSS framework, which already provided a fluid grid system.
Media Queries and Breakpoints
We added a new responsive.css file to Warp, which contains all the CSS we need to make our themes responsive. For our layout breakpoints we use max-width and min-width instead of any device widths. This makes testing in the browser really easy because the layout breaks as you start dragging...

Steam Theme2012-05-31 18:56:00
Check out "Steam" our latest theme release for June 2012! It's fresh and colorful design works perfectly any kind of event, magazine, blog or company website. With a modern layout you can present all your essential information to your visitor in a clean and direct way. Then to get a bit fancy, just combine it with our powerful Widgetkit and you have built an cutting edge website! All in all this theme offers 8 different very detailed color variations, 4 module styles and 13 different fonts. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
All our frequent blog readers surely noticed that this is our last theme which will support Joomla 1.5 and Internet Explorer 7. You can read more on this topic in our last blog post Goodbye Joomla 1.5 and IE7
Available for Joomla and WordPress
8 style variations available
Choose from 13 fonts
4 module sty...

Goodbye Joomla 1.5 and IE72012-05-21 17:52:00
Joomla 1.5 reached its offical end-of-life in April 2012. Most theme and extension developers already dropped Joomla 1.5 support and we also think it is time to say good bye. This is why we will stop developing templates for Joomla 1.5. The next June template will be the last template available for Joomla 1.5. The same goes for Widgetkit and ZOO.
Internet Explorer 7 was originally released in 2006 and does not support the latest web standards and technologies compared to modern browsers which offer a rich support for HTML5 and CSS3. Its market share fell under 3% worldwide this month and many companies like Google or Open Source CMS like Drupal dropped IE7 support for their upcoming releases. So we also decided to discontinue IE7 browser support for our themes and extensions from July 1st 2012 on.
This step allows us to focus on modern web technologies for our next major Warp framework release coming in July! We are very excited about it. More news coming soon!

Subway Theme2012-04-30 16:04:00
Get on board and check our new Subway theme! It brings you a modern boxed layout with a broad range of options for customization. You can choose from various color and transparency options. Explore many beautiful designed details like fresh typography, icons, CSS animations and animated backgrounds. Also this theme brings you some nice custom features: Two new Widgetkit styles for the Slideshow and the Gallery are included. Their design seamlessly fits into the theme. Also notice the fixed social toolbar, which appears if you hover the icon to the right of your browser window. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
Available for Joomla and WordPress
13 style/color variations available
11 backgrounds and 2 animated backgrounds included
3 background textures combinable with each background
Choose from 11 fonts
2 module styles combina...

Space 2 Icon Set2012-04-19 17:33:00
As promised here comes our second part of our space icon series! Now the Space Crew is complete with a witty robot in three different mood versions, the green twin of the protozoa alien, a satellite, a planet and a flying saucer. So what are you waiting for - with this team you are ready to travel to infinity and beyond! This makes 7 icons altogether. All icons come in 32-bit transparency PNG file format and in 8 different standard sizes, ranging from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels. It makes a total of 56 additional handcrafted icons which are of course optimized for each specific size.
Take a look at the new space icons and join the icon club!
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Radiance Theme2012-04-02 10:20:00
Check out "Radiance" our brand new theme release for April 2012! It's vibrant and colorful design suits perfectly any kind of software, gaming or product website. To showcase your content this theme uses the new screen style of the Widgetkit slideshow with the eye-catching swipe effect. It also offers a fancy firefly background effect and other custom options such as 10 different colors, 3 module variations and 15 font styles. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
Available for Joomla and WordPress
10 style variations available
Fancy FireFly effect
3 module style combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons
4 system styles matches perfectly with the module styles
Flexible template and column widths
All Warp framework features are available
Joomla Demo
WordPress Demo

Space 1 Icon Set2012-04-02 10:19:00
Yes, finally we've created a new icon set! This time it includes some nice and very detailed space icons: A monkey which starts a journey to outer space, a purple protozoa alien, a spaceship rocket, a radio telescope and a raygun. This makes 5 icons altogether. It is the first part of our space icon series, a second part will follow shortly. All icons come in 32-bit transparency PNG file format and in 8 different standard sizes, ranging from 16x16 to 512x512 pixels. It makes a total of 40 additional handcrafted icons which are of course optimized for each specific size.
Take a look at the new space icons and join the icon club!
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Inspire Theme2012-02-29 09:20:00
Our new Inspire theme comes with cool widescreen backgrounds enhanced with smooth CSS3 animations for a vivid look and feel. You can select from a variety of pixel-perfect background images each offering a its own unique style. All in all you can choose from these 12 backgrounds and combine them with up to 6 different colors to create your individual design. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
Widgetkit Updated
Also the Inspire theme comes with customized styles for the Widgetkit Slideshow, Gallery and Slideset. The new Widgetkit 1.0.3 release adds new a effect and fixes some bugs! The slideset widget has a new effect called "drops", which animate each slide like they are falling down. If you are already using Widgetkit make sure to get this latest update or give it a try if you haven't tried it out yet!
Available for Joomla ...

Warp 6 Master Theme2012-02-13 14:05:00
Today we want to introduce the Warp Master theme, which is the basic theme powered by our Warp theme framework. This theme is for everyone who loves to create beautiful themes as much as we do. It is the same great framework we use for our own themes! This Master theme is optimized and streamlined to serve as a blueprint to build your very own custom theme. The best part is you get it for free!
Yet another theme framework?
... you might think. Warp is a lightweight theme framework we designed for developers by focusing on simplicity and usability. It's a solid tool set which assists you in solving repetitive tasks when creating themes. By design it works with different CMS systems like Joomla or WordPress and can even be extended to support others. It also covers all aspects in theme development and uses the latest web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, PHP 5.2+ and jQuery. The latest major version 6 was released last year and has been updated frequently with new features, bug fixe...

Revista Theme2012-01-31 13:53:00
Say "Buenos dias" to our latest theme release, Revista! This theme is a right choice if you are looking for a clean and functional design with lots of options for easy layout customization. You can choose from more than 22 backgrounds, three different wrapper options, a squared and a rounded layout and much more. Overall it provides a really versatile design which fits for any news, magazine or company website. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
Widgetkit Updated
Further the Revista theme also includes fully customized styles for the Widgetkit Slideshow, Gallery and Slideset. Also the new Widgetkit 1.0.1 release comes with some candy enhancements! The slideshow and gallery widget got a new effect called "swipe", don't hesitate to try it out. We also fine tuned the lighbox widget for this release... It's now autoresponsive! Yo...

Support Tips2012-01-27 15:30:00
The introduction of our new support system has proven to be a great asset in helping people seeking answers to their questions. Today we want to share some thoughts on how it could be even better.
In case you have a question there are two possibilities: If you have a membership or account issue, please send us an email. In any other case - be it a technical issue, a bug report or a general question - the support section on our website is the way to go! With regards to the use of that support tool we came up with a short guideline for you.
1. It's all about questions and answers
One question - some answers - one accepted answer. That is our idea of the perfect support dialogue. We replaced the old forum because important information tends to get lost in lengthy discussion threads. Help us create the perfect knowledge collection!
2. Edit a lot
Do not be afraid to edit your questions and answers if you have something to add or something to be corrected. In that way information sta...

New Company Pages2012-01-23 14:39:00
With our new company pages we want you to meet the YOOtheme team and the support crew. Check it out to put faces behind the products and services we offer. But there is a lot more information to be found here.
We have come a long way since our start in 2007. Ride the train along all the important places we have been too in the past couple of years on our history page. YOOtheme has always taken pride in its participation at conferences and other fun events. The Events & Press page gives you a reference about that. Last but not least - We are hiring again! If you are a web designer or developer from Hamburg, Germany, check out our job section and apply today!

Widgetkit 1.0 Released2012-01-10 17:13:00
Today we are very proud to release Widgetkit 1.0, finally! We kept Widgetkit in BETA status for a long time now. This was because we wanted to wait till our website relaunch to provide a great Widgetkit product site with examples and a comprehensive documentation.
And here we go! Visit the Widgetkit product pages:
Learn more about the features.
See Widgetkit examples in action.
Download it and take it for a test drive.
Read the documentation to start customizing.
Free Version
Yes, that's right! There is a free Widgetkit version. It includes the following widgets: Lightbox, Spotlight, Twitter, Media Player and Slideshow. But only the default style is available in the Slideshow widget.
New Widgetkit Memberships
To get the full Widgetkit including all Slideshow styles, the Gallery, the Slideset, the Map and the Accordion widget, we introduce two new independent Widgetkit memberships:
Standard: 6 months support and updates for 29?
Developer: 12 months support and upda...

Balance Theme2012-01-02 10:11:00
Welcome Balance our first 2012 theme release! This nice and clean theme design is really versatile and can be used for any business, sports or medical related wesbsite. Further the design makes use of unique 3D style look for the menubar, modules and as Widgetkit Slideshow style. It also includes 9 style variations and 9 background images which can be combined in many different ways for you own custom look. In this latest Warp 6.1 framework based theme we make use of modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
Available for Joomla and WordPress
Choose from 9 styles combinable with 9 background images and 13 fonts
5 module style combinable with 4 badges and 6 icons
2 Custom styles for Widgetkit
Flexible template and column widths
All Warp framework features are available
Joomla Demo
WordPress Demo

YOOtheme Relaunch2011-12-06 18:17:00
Since we launched YOOtheme back in 2007 we've used our website design for almost 5 years now. We thought it's time for a change and this summer we started to work on our new website. After months of careful research, planning and development we are delighted to present you our new website today. As you can see everything has changed from the design, navigation, downloads, documentation to the support system. As you will also notice everything has improved and become much easier as well. Also all product pages have been redesigned to give you a better understanding of what we offer and what to expect from our products. This blog post will shed some light on the new features, content and the many new things to explore.
Widgetkit
Finally our Widgetkit gets its own place on our website. We created a nice overview of all the widgets and features it currently offers. Also we created an example page which lets you browse through all the popular widgets like the Slideshow, Slideset and...

Warp 6.1 Released2011-12-06 18:16:00
The Warp theme framework 6.0 is out for a while now and we're really happy with it! But we also had some new ideas for additional features and improvements. Now we are proud to announce the next milestone our Warp 6.1 release. Let's have a closer look at it...
System Check
In our support forums we noticed there are many common issues due to the webserver configuration or an unsupported PHP version. Thats why we built in a system check which automatically runs a few tests to quickly find issues on your installation. So if you experiencing any problems with your theme? Just open your theme settings and take a look at the system check. It will provide you with useful information about wrong file permissions or missing PHP extensions. In Joomla the system check even tries to recognize possible problems with multiple jQuery instances in your installed extensions.
Social Buttons
A great new feature are the new social buttons for articles. Just enable them in your theme settings a...

Catalyst Theme2011-12-01 09:17:00
Check out "Catalyst" our stunning theme release for December 2011! Its unique and flexible design suits perfectly any kind of mobile gaming and PC or console game communities. The theme offers many custom options such as 6 different colors, up to 9 menu variations and 6 background textures. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
Further this new theme debuts the latest Warp framework version 6.1 adding new features and enhancements. These features include a system check to quickly check your webserver requirements, social buttons in articles for Twitter and Google+, auto-detection of module and style layouts. The Catalyst theme also includes a additional Widgetkit slideset style. Widgetkit Beta 19 currently offers 9 widgets and over 20+ style variations you can choose from!
Available for Joomla and Wordpress
Choose from 6 styles...

Catalyst Theme2011-11-18 17:17:00
Check out "Catalyst" our stunning theme release for December 2011! Its unique and flexible design suits perfectly any kind of mobile gaming and PC or console game communities. The theme offers many custom options such as 6 different colors, up to 9 menu variations and 6 background textures. You can use this theme with Joomla or WordPress and it is based on the Warp6 theme framework which uses modern web technologies like HTML5 markup, CSS3 features and jQuery based JavaScripts.
Further this new theme debuts the latest Warp framework version 6.1 adding new features and enhancements. These features include a system check to quickly check your webserver requirements, social buttons in articles for Twitter and Google+, auto-detection of module and style layouts. The Catalyst theme also includes a additional Widgetkit slideset style. Widgetkit Beta 19 currently offers 9 widgets and over 20+ style variations you can choose from!
Available for Joomla and Wordpress
Choose from 6 styles...